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- Carl Alonzo Dewey
- He was born to Donald A. Dewey and Dora (Borsun) Dewey in Pitkin County, Colorado. The family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado when he was three years old, in 1900. As a child he attended school in town and graduated from Grand Junction High School. He also attended the Hoel Ross Business College. He began working for the C.D. Smith Drug Company while still in high school and worked there until his retirement in 1963. He became the superintendent of operations for the company and supervised the distribution of fertilizers, insecticides and other products produced in the company’s laboratories. He also worked for the Henry Galley Real Estate Company. He married Merle Alice Nelson on January 19, 1919. They had two children. He served in the US Army during World War I. He belonged to the Masonic Lodge 55, the Western Colorado Horticultural Society, the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists, the Entomological Society of America, the American Mining Congress, the National Plant Food Institute, and the Colorado and Wyoming mining associations. He was also a charter member of the American Legion Post in Grand Junction. *Some of the information for this biography came from an obituary for Mr. Dewey published in the Daily Sentinel in March 1987.
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- Carl Bergman
- Carl and Katie Bergman, as a young couple in 1963, gave up promising careers in the Midwest and moved to Aspen to satisfy their urge to ski. All they really wanted was to do was fit into a mountain community, but they gave back as much as they gained. Carl, trained as a pharmacist, got a job at Matthews Drug in 1963. The Bergmans seized the opportunity to buy it two years later, changing the name to Carl’s Pharmacy. They bought a lot across Main Street and built the Miners’ Building in 1976. They continue to operate both stores. “You can’t just live a normal life. You have to stick your neck out and take risks,” Katie Bergman said. She and her husband always intended to be longtime retailers. Nurturing successful businesses then selling for a fat profit was never their interest. They raised their two children in Aspen, and they built a strong family atmosphere with many of their employees over the years. The two stores employ about 65 workers. Some of them have been with the Bergmans for 30 years. “It’s like a family business,” Katie Bergman said. Katie said her husband has always loved history. His steam-powered calliope has been in just about every Aspen parade since 1976. When he was president of the Aspen Historical Society, Carl saw the need to increase the exposure to Aspen’s mining and ranching history. He and Aspenites Rick Newton and Graeme Means “wore down” the Aspen City Council in a lobbying effort to get the city to acquire land for a museum. The Holden Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum features an old saw mill, stamp mill and numerous other historic pieces of mining and ranching equipment.--Aspen Hall of Fame bio.
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- Carl Forsman
- He was born to Swedish immigrants in Palisade, Colorado, and moved to near the town of Mesa in 1918. His family lived on a homestead about five miles outside of town. He walked two miles to a school in Plateau Canyon. It was a one room school house with one teacher and 8 children. He worked on his parents’ farm, later as a ranch hand, and then as a shipping clerk.